Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near future little is likely to change for the ruling coalition. Much to the government's distress, the political fallout from the Pollard spy case continues. Last week, with two Israeli probes into the controversy under way, investigators acknowledged that the country's senior leadership is under scrutiny. Said one official: "When the findings are published, it will be determined whether the rascals are guilty...
...death in 1983 at the age of 87. Was Basia a sorceress who abused and then fleeced a victim of senile dementia? Or were the children, all of them financially independent, avid for the $500 million at stake? Barbara Goldsmith, a journalist who specializes in histories of family distress (Little Gloria . . . Happy At Last), unearths a scandalous past of suicide attempts, drug addiction, incest and accusations of attempted murder. What the plaintiffs wanted, she shows, was emotional restitution, and they were willing to spend millions in lawyers' fees to receive a portion of it. There are enough miseries, furies...
Roper repeatedly notified PTL of Hahn's story, and when no reply resulted, he and Stewart sent PTL officials a draft of a civil complaint on Hahn's behalf, claiming emotional distress, as well as Hahn's account of her Florida tryst. Within ten days that document got the attention of Dortch, an Assemblies of God minister who was installed as Bakker's top administrator in the wake of press allegations of misuse of PTL moneys. Dortch met Roper in tony Newport Beach, Calif., in 1985 and soon hired as PTL's representative Criminal Lawyer Howard Weitzman, whose clients have...
Hospitals are finding that animals ease patient isolation, as well as anxiety and distress. Three of the most popular visitors to elderly patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in New York City come from the A.S.P.C.A.: Jake, a bull mastiff; Boris, a 50-lb. Samoyed; and Regina, a tortoiseshell cat. At Children's Hospital in Denver, staff members and volunteers bring in their dogs, cleanly clad in smocks or T shirts, and make rounds of wards. Retirement and nursing homes are welcoming pets too. The Tacoma Lutheran Home in Washington boasts a menagerie of furry and feathery live-ins. Some have...
...could be the best thing that has happened to him in this season of distress. At the heart of the Establishment are good and wise men and women who so often in times of crisis place the national interest above party and ideology. If Reagan finally lends his considerable talents to their healing agenda, he could not only recover lost prestige but go on to greater achievements. If he decides to buck an aroused Establishment, he will in all likelihood be run over by events...